Hurriflatch said:
if you think that they had no inout then you are an idiot.
They may not have been on the phone with the new club 7 hours a day but they woulds've had some input
proof
Parra signed Todd Lowrie
no way he would've been signed if Hagan had no input
Penrith signed Nathan Smith
Souths signed Jeremy Smith
Yes thats right.
And then you have to take into account the players he wanted the year before that who were recruited and have been retained by the raiders in 2007.
Anyway, its not as important as the significance of the win for the raiders.
But lets say all things being equal and Elliot wanting a win at all costs, very few people outside of their own camp would have known them better than him. Thus any expert or inside knowledge he had, based on the result, was of little or no use.
Whether that fact is of concern to any of the elite Panther cadre, I dont know.
More worried about the players than they would be about Elliot and they cant blame him yet (publically) anyway.
The record shows that cadre victim John Lang was getting better results. As the losses mount for Elliot, so does the pressure and later, the ever-increasing expectation of long and happy days under the sun.
And if the sun isnt seen for awhile, people start get a bit nervous, ponder then jump ship and its "Nail Elliot time."
And the elite will have to conjer up another miracle plan, another coach and so forth.
And this whole pattern is pretty much repeated at almost every club in sport, not just our friendly Panther case study.
When they lose, its the players fault.
When they win, its Elliots good coaching.
And Lang was a
proven premisership winner. Been there, done that but to the cadre's defence, he was unable to deliver on those elusive long and happy days.
Loved it!
